A STATEMENT CORRECTED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1914, Page 5

A STATEMENT CORRECTED.

[To The Editor Stiiateoud Post.]

I Sir, —I wish to correct statements made by the Lighting Committee icIgarding myself at the Borough Coun- ; oil meeting of March 10th and roI ported in your paper of the 11th, viz., “That the County petition was circulated by a director of the F.lectrical Supply Co. (namely myself) qnd that tlie majority of the signatories were not aware of the real; puroor. of the petition.” My action in the matter was, after the petition had been sent out from the Stratford County office and had lain at some of the smaller centres for signature, I got a number of signatures, posstb'y 80 out of the 200 odd. If required, 95 per cent, of the total ratepayers' signatures could have been got. In each case the position was explained as fully as possible, and a copy the Council’s resolution was shewn when requested. , The petition \mi« asked for by the County Council, when a deputation of ratepayers waited on them, and prior to the Minister for Public Works consenting to issue a -County license.—l am, etc., S. M. 1*01?RITT